wireless, Broadcom & jaunty

[Joep L. Blom]

NoOp wrote:
> On 05/01/2009 06:11 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
>> As so many on this list I finally found the courage to upgrade one of my 
>> systems - a 64-bit AMD 3000 - to jaunty. Although rather cumbersome 
>> (first upgrading to Intrepid which took 5 hours over a slow wireless 
>> link in Hardy) and then using wired (as wireless didn't work) I upgraded 
>> to jaunty. This went rather well to my surprise.
>> However, my Broadcom BCM4306 won't work as expected.
>> Yes, I can see many routers (including my own), however, wicd tries to 
>> connect but can't.
>> dmesg tells me:
>> ____________________________________________________
>> [   16.070566] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found
>> [   16.117038] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
>> [   16.187063] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PLR, Firmware-ID: 
>> FW13 ]
>> [   16.193112] udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to eth0
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> 1. Check to ensure that your wicd was updated:
> $ apt-cache policy wicd
> Should return 1.5.9-2
> 
> 2. Open wicd and check your default preferences. They should show wlan0
> and eth0.
> 
> 3. Check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net_rules to see if the proper
> mac address (00:c0:49:54:77:9e?) is associated with eth0 and wlan0.
> 
> 
> 
Noop, thanks.
ad 1.	Yes that is equal
ad 2. I think the default is correct as it says:
	wireless interface eth0
	wired interface eth1
and in dmesg:
	[   16.193112] udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to eth0
ad 3. There was a problem as the MAC-address was not the correct one. It 
was: "00:0c:76:71:bd:44". Why that was I don't know. I have corrected it 
to the one you correctly assumed was the right one but I assume I have 
to restart networking? or ifup? or what else? When I opened wicd it 
didn't work yet.
By the way, I never use /etc/init.d/<any_service parameter> but sudo 
service <any_service parameter>. Service is a small wrapper utιlity in 
/usr/bin. I used it always in Fedora.

Thanks for now,
Joep